Got the footage of my flip nose down the little Hemel Hubba . Chuffed
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Thatās ace!
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Iāve been off for a couple of months and just messed about with some flatland mainly. Put the phone on 5 mins before closing. Proper stiff old man legs going on 
On a positive I almost got a 360 shove it, not popped, which is a first. Was trying to teach my daughter the usual 180 version. I might try for a 45 for 45 but Iām 46 in a couple of months and I was going to do a 40 for 40 6 years ago 
Iām a doof and Iām tired so the instagram link is fried. Good night 
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Respect mate. That was sick 
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Go on @Mike ! Super cool youāre skating with your Daughter too x
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Haha thanks. Really sore still even though Iām taking it easy now.
Yeah, itās cool, makes me feel less of a weirdo going to the local on my own. Lizzy really took to skating earlier in the year and it was good seeing her progress. Last sat night she realised she canāt just stop skating and pick up right where she left off.
She does gymnastics and trampolining and oddly enough her core balance in those really improved after she started skating.
Looking for feedback!
Since being made redundant Iāve been trying to upskill in various areas, and one of the things Iāve wanted to do more of for a while is video editing. I did a short course over the summer, just the basics of premiere pro, but havenāt actually edited anything since I was at uni and obviously itās difficult to create anything without raw footage! I found this website called editstock where you can buy the unedited footage from existing documentaries and films ā the point being you can then rework the footage into your own project ā I chose a documentary called āGnarly in Pinkā, which is about a group of 6 year old girls who are getting into skateboarding.
Below is the edit Iāve made. Iām pretty happy with it, I really enjoyed the process of creating a narrative and editing the interviews, but would be really interested in hearing feedback, particularly around any practical elements? Is there anything I can do more of to make it seem more professional? Is there any best practice I should do more of etc? Does anything seem clunky? Iām hoping to add it to my portfolio, so any feedback anyone has I would be really appreciative to hear. Thanks! Itās 4 mins 30.
Fyi, I deliberately didnāt watch the actual film until Iād finished my version, so have tried not to copy anything.
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Will watch in my free tomorrow mate and report back.
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I did watch this and got dragged into other bullshit. TBH I canāt offer anything constructive as I donāt know fuck all about this stuff BUT it all looked and seemed coherent to me and given Iām trying to encourage both my kids to try skating, relevant if that helps.
I did laugh out loud at the my favourite skater bit though 
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Ha, yeah that surprised me too - one of the other kids said their favourite was Tony Hawk in a clip I didnāt use. Thanks for watching it.
Cheers man, appreciate it. Iāve made a few further cuts and brightened some shots that were a bit dark. As long as itās vaguely watchable thatās all Iām aiming for!
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Lol Chris Cole 
I thought it was great man - very wholesome.
Only thing I wouldāve shot differently was the bit of Woodward mini ramp footage shot fish on one side. Maybe long it?
Other than that - very nice.
And waitā¦
Youāre American?
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Youāre right, some of the fisheye footage wasnāt that great, a lot of it was very shakey. I used the best of what I had but maybe thereās a better shot I could use.
And no, not American! Which makes even less sense as to why Iām editing a video about Americans skating Woodward, but Iāll take what I can get haha.
Thanks man
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It looks ok to me, but I canāt critique shit.
Really lovely story, and it was shot so nicely. I love stories/docs like this where you get the āfly on the wallā footage with everyone being micād up and we can just observe and hear their thoughts.
The overall pace of the video was great too, felt very natural.
My main critique would be the colour balance and grading. Some of the footage is over and underexposed quite a bit, so if you have the dynamic range you could have looked to adjust that and colour correct a few shots. Skin tones were a bit off in places, tooā¦ but thatās me being super picky!
The audio levels could have been more consistent throughout. I generally try to have vocals in interviews at around -6db and music obviously lower than that. There are various tutorials online that can help with the EQ of your audio tracks to make sure that the vocal frequencies arenāt drowned out by music.
Hope that helps!
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Oops posted that wrong
This is all really useful, thanks for the feedback, appreciate it.
Thereās a closeup shot of a shoe which is really dark which Iāve already adjusted and agree some of the interviews are a bit too orangey - I added some more blue tones. But definitely going to look into all this a bit more, thatās the sort of next step technical stuff I need to get more knowledgable with. Same with the audio - Iād tried to reduce any peaks but hadnāt really thought about individual levels. So great to flag, Iāll look at some tutorials.
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No worries! Do you use waveforms and vectorscopes to monitor the luma and colour levels? That will help you a lot.
I use FCPX to edit (at work and at home), and that has a great feature of having a zebra indicator to show you if your highlights are peaking and shadows are crushed.
Thatās a lot of words that I donāt understand haha.
Iāve only used the basics of the lumetri colour in Premiere - basic adjustments of levels and curves and stuff (though I understand the principles as itās same as photoshop). It does show the waveforms so presumably it can flag areas that need adjusting in the same way as Final Cut does.
Iāve only dipped my toe into video colour grading so am going to check out some tutorials tomorrow.
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Sounds like youāve got it all under control! Sweet!
Turns out I do not have it all under control haha. Iām having a bit of trouble with the audio, do you mind if I ask a quick question?
My clips all have wildly different peaks and troughs across the audio - sometimes it drops down to like -24 when the girls are talking outside but will then jump up to like -6 when an adult it talking inside. Iāve normalised all the peaks so that nothing jumps up higher than -3 overall, but how do I balance out the audio across all the whole video. Surely I donāt have to manually add keyframes to bring up the really low audio? Is there a way to like average out the audio levels?
All the YouTube tutorials Iāve found just show how to adjust overall volume of clips, or add gain etc. Im not sure what to search for.
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